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Water Cycle
Clouds
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The never ending process that recycles the Earth's water supply.
What is the Water Cycle?
100
Piled up puffy clouds, that usually bring fair weather.
What are cumulus clouds?
100
The condition of the air around us.
What is weather?
100
A tool used to measure temperature.
What is a thermometer?
100
The weight of air of any one spot.
What is air pressure?
200
The part of the water cycle that changes liquid water into a gas call water vapor.
What is evaporation?
200
A thick blanket of clouds darkening and covering the whole sky. They usually bring rain or snow.
What are stratus clouds?
200
The average or typical weather in a particular area.
What is climate?
200
A tool used to measure the amount of rain fall.
What is a rain gauge?
200
High pressure air rushing toward low pressure air.
What is wind?
300
The part of the water cycle that changes water vapor into liquid droplets forming a cloud.
What is condensation?
300
High wispy clouds made of tiny ice particles.
What are cirrus clouds?
300

This is a mixture of gases. It is 78% Nitrogen and 21% Oxygen.

What is air?

300
A tool used to measure wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
300
Cold heavy air.
What is high pressure air?
400
The part of the water cycle where tiny drops of water collect into large enough droplets to fall to the ground as; rain, snow, sleet, or hail.
What is precipitation?
400
Clouds are formed in what part of the weather cycle?

Condensation

400
The layer of air around the earth.
What is the atmosphere?
400
A tool used to measure air pressure.
What is a barometer?
400
The study of weather.
What is meteorology?
500
Water that is found underground/
What is groundwater?
500

What happens when a cloud becomes too heavy with water?

Precipitation

500

What is a boundary created when two air masses meet?

A front
500
A person that uses weather tools to predict the weather.
What is a meteorologist?
500
A funnel shaped windstrom that emerges from a thunderstorm.
What is a tornado?